among other things, i'm helping to redo the website for my work at stonemountain & daughter fabrics.  right now the site looks horrible - and i'm fixing that.  we're asking anyone who has been to our store and has had a good experience to link over to our website (see link above).  thanks!

everybody has their own flavor of christmas memories... songs and things that define what traditional christmas has to be.  mine ideal christmas was formed when i was before age 5 and going to my grandparents' house for the day.  it was probably the only day of the year when the stereo would run all day and loud enough that you could hear it from ( Read more... )

as mr virgil pesters me about being on the computer an not slinging a cat toy around the room for his entertainment, i am in mortal fear of the big pile of dirty dishes piled up in my kitchen.  there is probably a bigfoot living among them by now, ready to stride out into my living room in some kind of bizarre david-lynch style dream sequence.  it' ( Read more... )

i'm just home from thanksgiving and as stuffed as a roasted bird.

this was probably year 3 or 4 of what i like to call "the tornado alley ex-pat club," which means that friends with origins in kansas, oklahoma, texas, and france (by way of oklahoma) gather together somewhere in northern california and protest flying home for thanksgiving.  it's ( Read more... )

so of course thanksgiving is coming up and of all things we are not making turkey this year - in its stead will be two handsome roasted chickens and a perky little organic free range ham smothered in jewel-like pineapples.  i won't miss the turkey - it's always around, but i rarely eat it  when it's there.

in keeping with the idea of turkey but ( Read more... )

i attribute my absolute worship of the midcentury pracitcal arts and design to two things: the frank lloyd wright price tower was practically right outside my bedroom window for me to see every night of my young formative years... and my grandparents' wood shop was filled to the brim with all manner of 30's - 60's ephemera, perfectly preserved.  ( Read more... )

almost everyone knows by now that i'm on the path to growing my microbusiness, Atelier Chouette, into a venture i will someday be able to do full time.  this is hard work.  very, very, very hard work.  it causes me not to return phone calls to the dearest of my friends and forces my husband to wonder why i'm not coming out of my office until late ( Read more... )

today was very busy - too busy, in fact, to accomodate all of the lovely people that called and wanted to make today a mini-vacation.  sorry, holly.  i'll schedule a date with ya soon...

most of the day was taken up with errands and getting dr. rollin to the dentist for his regularly scheduled dental maintenance.  not a problem - while i was out ( Read more... )

i know, i know... i've been posting a lot of iMixes lately.  i hate to admit that i'm so addicted to iTunes, but it's just, well, sort of what i always wanted. it fulfills a lot of my puny audiophile desires so completely.  *sigh*.  lots more fun mixes coming soon - i have something like 3.6 days worth of music on my iTunes, and dividing everything ( Read more... )

i've had this playlist kicking around for awhile - just yesterday i realized that i should clean it up and publish it, as it's fairly robust:


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